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The regional sports network, which is amid a 10-year, $500 million deal for Tigers local broadcast rights, has topped all of Major League Baseball in local TV ratings the past couple of seasons.

Each local ratings point represents 18,564 households in the Detroit market.

While baseball trumps fútbol on TV in Detroit, the reverse is true in many other U.S. markets.

Nationally, Sunday’s game set a U.S. television record for a soccer match with 18.2 million viewers, good for a 9.6 average household rating, ESPN said. It was the most-viewed program outside of NFL and college football in the network’s 35-year history.

The former U.S. soccer viewership record was 17.8 million for the American victory over China in the 1999 Women’s World Cup final, ESPN said.

ESPN paid $100 million in a package deal for the rights to air the 2010 and 2014 World Cup.

The 2018 and 2022 World Cup matches will be aired by Fox, which won the English-language U.S. television rights in 2011 for a reported $425 million after out-bidding ESPN and NBC.